Books : The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.00803538
EAN: 9781416537458
ISBN: 1416537457
Label: Scribner
Manufacturer: Scribner
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 336
Publication Date: February 05, 2008
Publisher: Scribner
Sales Rank: 299106
Studio: Scribner
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Product Description:
There is a deep tradition of eroticism in American poetry. Thoughtful, provocative, moving, and sometimes mirthful, the poems collected in The Best American Erotic Poems celebrate this exuberant sensuality.
These poems range across the varied landscapes of love and sex and desire -- from the intimate parts of the body to the end of an affair, from passion to solitary self-pleasure. With candor and imagination, they capture the delights and torments of sex and sexuality, nudity, love, lust, and the secret life of fantasy.
David Lehman, the distinguished editor of the celebrated Best American Poetry series, has culled a witty, titillating, and alluring collection that starts with Francis Scott Key, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, and Hart Crane, encompasses Frank O'Hara, Anne Sexton, John Updike, Charles Simic, Billy Collins, Kevin Young, and Sharon Olds, and concludes with the rising stars of a whole new generation of versifiers, including Sarah Manguso, Ravi Shankar, and Brenda Shaughnessy.
In a section of the book that is sure to prompt discussion and further reading, the living poets write about their favorite works of erotic writing.
This book will delight, surprise, and inspire.
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - Excellent, Sensual Anthology
I checked this book out from the library and after renewing it twice, I figured I ought to break down and buy it. And I did because, happily, it's out in paperback.
Readers, this book was/is NOT a waste of money, no sireeee. It's loaded with passion, veiled hot passages, steamy yearnings, wit, angst, lust/love and even a funny poem that made me laugh out loud. My copy is hilighted and dog-eared and indispensable.
I even sent a spanking new copy to a good friend for ... Read More
Rating: - A feast between the covers (of the book, that is)!
This book is indeed a feast between the book covers, and reading the poems will make you want to dive under the covers with your beloved! My copy has been in my hand only a month, and already the pages are becoming dog-earred and the highlighting is prominent. Many anthologies of erotic/love poems contain so much similar material, but this one introduces the reader to many fine but often too little considered erotic poems and poets. Therein lies its greatest value, at least to me. The enthuiastic ... Read More
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